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Hole in My Life
Prizewinning author Jack Gantos confronts the period of struggle and confinement that marked the end of his own youth, his time in prison, and how he moved on.
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I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup
A veteran teacher's view of the lives of juveniles sentenced as adults.
- Nonfiction
- Lock Up: Teens Behind Bars
- Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults 2015
- ISBN: 9780807001233
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No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row
Teenagers on death row speak about their lives before and after being locked up.
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A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison
At the age of sixteen, R. Dwayne Betts commits a carjacking with his friend and both boys are sentenced as adults.
- Nonfiction
- Lock Up: Teens Behind Bars
- Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults 2015
- ISBN: 9781583333969
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Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling
A history of incarceration in America, from its origins as a Quaker influenced institution to the present.
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Real Justice: Sentenced to Life at Seventeen: The Story of David Milgaard
A Canadian teen is wrongfully imprisoned for 23 years.
- Nonfiction
- Lock Up: Teens Behind Bars
- Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults 2015
- ISBN: 9781552774335
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Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
The horrifying true story of Jack Mandelbaum's life in Nazi concentration camps, being shuttled from one camp to another, trying to find a way to beat Hitler.
- Nonfiction
- Lock Up: Teens Behind Bars
- Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults 2015
- ISBN: 9780060007676